Leow, C. W. and Mohammad, A. B. (2006) MEMS optical switch based on fiber displacement. In: The International Conference on MEMS and Nanotechnology, ICMN'06, 14-15 March 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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A MEMS optical switch based on fiber displacement is presented. The switch consists of an arrangement of electrostatic actuated cantilever beams. A movable fiber is attached to the cantilevers as such that it gets displaced as the cantilevers are actuated. By aligning another fiber towards the end of this movable fiber, a simple on/off switch is achieved. The switch can be extended to 1x2 by aligning 2 fibers at the receiving end. Design and modeling of the switch is done using a mixture of finite element and boundary element method, utilizing Coventor, a commercial MEMS modeling software. The switch can be utilized in optical monitoring and test equipment subassembly system.
|Item Type:||Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)|
|Additional Information:||ISBN: 987-983-42978-0-0|
|Uncontrolled Keywords:||MEMS optical, fiber displacement, electrostatic, cantilever beams|
|Subjects:||T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering|
|Deposited By:||Ms Zalinda Shuratman|
|Deposited On:||26 Aug 2010 08:50|
|Last Modified:||26 Aug 2010 08:50|
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